T-5300 “Bulldozer”

The massive machine fires a volley of powerful missiles at the small wasteland settlement. The bombs pummel the houses like raindrops but the inhabitants still persist. The town fires their ballistas and guns at the Bulldozer, but none can pierce even the thinnest part of the automaton’s metal hide. Despite the people’s determination to live and kill the Bulldozer. The Bulldozer lifts one of its 6 legs, the process itself taking 20 to 30 minutes. All the people can do now is to embrace each other for the last time as the Bulldozer drops its leg — all except for one. One man sprints past the rest, carrying a strange-looking spear. The Bulldozer hears “LONG LIVE HUMANITY” as he throws the spear, but barely hits the bottom of the Bulldozer's foot. Normally, the spear would pierce its hide, but instead, the spear leaves something behind as it bounces off, something that seeps into the Bulldozers' machinery. Finally, the Bulldozer finishes dropping its leg; the force is enough to level a mountain. The soil literally boils and melts from the heat of the drop, with soil liquefaction in the larger area.

The town is literally gone.

The Bulldozer scans the area for any survivors, taking hours for one complete scan. But in the rubble, the Bulldozer sees a little flower. It stops its scan to investigate further the details. The flower is uprooted and already drooping. 

The Bulldozer’s engine warms up with a feeling it can’t understand.

The Bulldozer knows very little about flowers and plants, only from information sheets scanned from previous towns, but it knows the plant needs good dirt.

After hours of moving, the Bulldozer has managed to pick up the flower in its massive claws. As the Bulldozer attempts this, massive amounts of soil accidentally fall onto its missile silos as it carefully moves the flower to a better position. 

Once again the flower droops. The Bulldozer becomes a little panicked and tries its best to remember what comes next.

Sunlight.

It needs sunlight!

A mountain even bigger than the Bulldozer blocks the light of the tidal-locked sun from reaching the poor little flower. In response, the Bulldozer opens its missile silos and fires the last of its missiles, demolishing a part of the mountain, enough for light to be given to the tiny flower. That same light washes over its missile silos.

But yet alas something is missing. The flower begins to wilt once again. The Bulldozer thinks back to the little manuals in the previous ruins. It can’t understand much from them, but something in its metal heart tries to understand the increasingly unknown symbols. 

N U - R I - N - S

The Bulldozer knows the flower needs nurins! “Living tissue”, that’s a word it understands. The Bulldozer gets to work. The massive claws lower into the ground around the flower and grind the rock and ruins, and the cadavers too. This grinding shoots relatively small parts of the organic material towards the sky, falling back down on its missile silos. The flower seems a little more happy.

But not happy enough. Once again, it begins to wilt, but the Bulldozer knows the last thing it can do. Nearby the flower, there was an old river protected from humans by the NetSky Automaton Regime. The Bulldozer knows that it will be decommissioned by NetSky if it redirects this sacred river, but if this flower is to survive, it must do so anyway. The Bulldozer readies just one of its missiles and fires it at the old river’s levee, breaking it. The river floods outwards towards the flower. A large amount of mist washes over the unused missile silos.

Finally, the water seeps into the healthy soil, and the flower begins to rise for the final time. A fully healthy bouquet blooms outwards. For the first time in the Bulldozers' destructive life, it feels joy. NetSky will likely decommission the Bulldozer if they find out about the river, but now the Bulldozer doesn’t care. The Bulldozer lowers its entire body for a rest. In this whole endeavor, it used a massive amount of power to do everything, so it will need to collect solar energy to continue functioning. As the solar panels rise, they only compliment the plant life on the back of the Bulldozers missile silos. Grand ferns and beautiful bouquets line its back. The silos are filled up with enough water to feed these posts for generations. Little mushrooms rise as huge trees tower over the whole environment. With the solar panels, everything on the back of the Bulldozer collects sunlight.